Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans by Hersch, Charles B

University of Chicago Press, 2009-03-14. paperback. Good. Very Good text overall, light crease to spine. Most items shipped via US Mail. Please provide a US Mail delivery address at checkout. Biblio's shipping charge based on a 2 lb weight. Oversize and heavy books will require an additional shipping charge.

Softcover, measuring approximately , has the remnants of large white price sticker at bottom of rear cover. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with sound binding, clean and bright interior. Illustrated with two maps and textual illustrations. x/289 pages.""Subversive Sounds" probes New Orleans's history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form--jazz. Drawing on oral histories, police reports, newspaper accounts, and vintage recordings, Charles Hersch brings to vivid life the neighborhoods and nightspots where jazz was born. This volume shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans's complex racial rules to pursue their craft and how, in order to widen their audiences, they became fluent in a variety of musical traditions from diverse ethnic sources. These encounters with other music and races subverted their own racial identities and changed the way they… Read More

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Paperback / softback. New. Probes New Orleans' history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form - jazz. This book shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans' complex racial rules to pursue their craft.

Paperback / softback. New. Probes New Orleans' history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form - jazz. This book shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans' complex racial rules to pursue their craft.

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2009. Paperback. New. 304 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches.

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